The Democrats and Republicans BOTH profit from the two parties trying to maintain a strangle hold on the political process in America, which is what brings them together.
And I'd agree with the thing about people wanting a change, because I sure did. I won't join my fellow Conservatives in mourning Rumsfeld's resignation, because I think if anyone in the Bush administration should be charged for war crimes, it's him. Does anyone remember when Janice Karpinski said that the orders to be rough on the prisoners came straight from him? As soon as it slipped out, it was never mentioned again. Only days after that little bit, it came out that he was using an autograph machine to sign the death certificates of our troops.
The campaign to do to Baghdad what was done to Fallujah was, so far as I know, never really attempted, and it was under Rumsfeld's watch that Sadr City was handed over to our former arch-enemy in Iraq, Muqtuda Al-Sadr. This 'handing over' included allowing Al-Sadr's militia to flatten three police stations within the district.
I will, of course, accept correction from a military strategy expert. If I was one, I'd be in the army instead of sitting in a computer chair. But it seems to me that Rumsfeld's handling of the Iraq war has been incompetent and depravedly indifferent towards both his own soldiers and the people this war is supposed to 'free'.